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The Norman conquest : the Battle of Hastings and the fall of Anglo-Saxon England / Marc Morris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2013Copyright date: ©2012Edition: First Pegasus Books editionDescription: 440 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1605984515 (hc.)
  • 9781605984513 (hc.) :
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Contents:
The man who would be king -- A wave of Danes -- The Bastard -- Best laid plans -- Holy warriors -- The Godwinesons -- Hostages to fortune -- Northern uproar -- The gathering storm -- The thunderbolt -- Invasion -- The spoils of victory -- Insurrenction -- Aftershocks -- Aliens and natives -- Ravening wolves -- The edges of empire -- Domesday -- Death and judgment -- The green tree.
Summary: A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: the Norman Conquest.
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An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.

Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-414) and index.

The man who would be king -- A wave of Danes -- The Bastard -- Best laid plans -- Holy warriors -- The Godwinesons -- Hostages to fortune -- Northern uproar -- The gathering storm -- The thunderbolt -- Invasion -- The spoils of victory -- Insurrenction -- Aftershocks -- Aliens and natives -- Ravening wolves -- The edges of empire -- Domesday -- Death and judgment -- The green tree.

A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: the Norman Conquest.

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